Norm MacDonald
Norm MacDonald
Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made appearances on shows including The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five-part miniseries 100 Greatest...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth17 October 1963
CityQuebec City, Canada
CountryCanada
When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
I don't have any ambition.
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.
There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!